MiPel takes heart from overseas gains
27/09/2012
This represents a fall of 5% compared to the attendance at the event in September 2011, although the number of visitors from outside Italy, 8,874, was up by 2%.
Organiser Aimpes (the Italian leathergoods manufacturers’ association) said that an 8% fall in the number of Italian visitors to the event was in keeping with the state of the domestic leathergoods market. Demand for high-end leathergoods in Italy fell by 6% in the first six months of 2012, while export revenues grew by 25%.
Overseas buyers at the event included many from Japan, China and Russia. “The growing interest from these countries is a good sign,” said Giorgio Cannara, president of Aimpes, at the end of the event, “because it indicates that people there, who increasingly insist on the very highest standards, are looking to MiPel to find the products that best meet their their requirements.”
There was also a considerable contingent from the Ukraine. Western Europe, on the other hand, “continues to make a poor showing”, Aimpes concluded, especially the number of visitors from Spain and Germany.
Mr Cannara concluded: “In an economic climate offering few glimpses of daylight, there is some reassurance in the outcome of trading contacts at MiPel, which have exceeded expectations.”
The next MiPel diary date is March 3-6, 2013 where collections of leathergoods and accessories for autumn-winter 2013-2014 will be on show.
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